RMweb Premium t-b-g Posted January 10, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2014 Can you explain why you are sitting at a scanner when there is a layout to be built? Naughty boy! Seriously, how come I never got to see these before. Very nice. And yes, he is a lot older than he looks.......... Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DavidLong Posted January 10, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2014 Excellent pics, Mike. Going back to the Barry shots and just hazarding a guess but would the only loco not surviving today be D6122? Shame! David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 11, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2014 Can you explain why you are sitting at a scanner when there is a layout to be built? There's a story behind that, and anyway, isn't it more fun having a last minute panic and doing it all oop north in the final week? I thought i'd left you in charge of operations in my absence, how's the fiddle yard coming on? Besides, I'm concentrating on stock building/finishing. Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 11, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2014 Super thank you but if you could just nip back and get it a lower angle. <g> An Airfix brake van and a few bits of plasticard is all that's required. Send me Dr Who's phone number, I seem to have misplaced it! Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 11, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2014 Leominster! I used to catch a 158 to go to college in Ludlow 5 days a week. That footbridge isn't there any more. It was once an important junction station but those days are long gone. Justin We have a winner! Not only does Justin do superb wagonry. Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Millhouses and Ecclesall - just outside Sheffield. What about the EE type3 on 1E87? I feel that I ought to know what service that is, but can't find it. Unless it is a later incarnation of the Manchester-Harwich boat train which was 1E78 in my spotting days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 11, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2014 What about the EE type3 on 1E87? I feel that I ought to know what service that is, but can't find it. Unless it is a later incarnation of the Manchester-Harwich boat train which was 1E78 in my spotting days. The arch it is about to pass through is Archer Road, the south side of M & E station, and it is the boat train, in our days a lot of headcodes were mis wound or wrongly displayed. Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjnewitt Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 We have a winner! Do I get a prize? Those pictures of D6796 in post #42 are interesting. Going by the green full yellow end 37s behind it the photo must have been taken around 69 which is fairly late for a loco not to have warning panels of any kind. Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Are you sure that D6796 has no yellow panel, or is it so filthy that you just cannot see it because the nose end is in shadow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjnewitt Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Are you sure that D6796 has no yellow panel, or is it so filthy that you just cannot see it because the nose end is in shadow? Not entirely but I can't make out a change in tone at all on the front. Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjnewitt Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 D6796 should have had a warning panel from new so I guess it's just filthy. Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium t-b-g Posted January 11, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2014 There's a story behind that, and anyway, isn't it more fun having a last minute panic and doing it all oop north in the final week? I thought i'd left you in charge of operations in my absence, how's the fiddle yard coming on? Besides, I'm concentrating on stock building/finishing. Mike. My days of last minute panics have long gone. Anyway, I thought Enterprisingwestern junior was the fiddle yard man! He was saying something cryptic about stepper motor drives on Wednesday. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 (edited) Not entirely but I can't make out a change in tone at all on the front. Justin If the date on this photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/34800790@N04/6555137895 is correct, it certainly had a small yellow panel in Sep 1967. But then again, if the date on this photo is correct, http://www.flickr.com/photos/24041160@N02/4871839863 it had a full yellow end a month earlier. Or, maybe the photographer of the second picture has the loco number wrong? Edited January 11, 2014 by jonny777 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted January 11, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2014 If the date on this photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/34800790@N04/6555137895 is correct, it certainly had a small yellow panel in 1967. If it any help the date is correct, I was there when it was taken by Dad. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjnewitt Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 If the date on this photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/34800790@N04/6555137895 is correct, it certainly had a small yellow panel in Sep 1967. But then again, if the date on this photo is correct, http://www.flickr.com/photos/24041160@N02/4871839863 it had a full yellow end a month earlier. Or, maybe the photographer of the second picture has the loco number wrong? If it any help the date is correct, I was there when it was taken by Dad. David Thanks gents. For some reason I'd got it into my head that the full yellow ends came later. May have something to do with c37lg.co.uk which states 1969 for D6796 getting full yellow ends. That makes Mike's pictures a couple of years older than I suggested. Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 12, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2014 (edited) Do I get a prize? Those pictures of D6796 in post #42 are interesting. Going by the green full yellow end 37s behind it the photo must have been taken around 69 which is fairly late for a loco not to have warning panels of any kind. Justin The date was 22.11.70. I've mentioned this photo on another thread about liveries. It was the last EE type 3 with small yellow panels, and, as you say, the sun wasn't doing me any favours, and combined with FP4 film and an iffy camera at the time, that's why there are 2 pictures of it to try and show up the SYWP. Mike. Edited January 12, 2014 by Enterprisingwestern 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurch Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Anyway, I thought Enterprisingwestern junior was the fiddle yard man! He was saying something cryptic about stepper motor drives on Wednesday. I think he was tired and rambling tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 18, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 18, 2014 I think he was tired and rambling tbh. Some 25 years in advance of his father Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted November 14, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 14, 2014 Back/forwards to the 90's again. I've managed to jumble them up somewhat, but in no particular order; Dragonby/Flixborough branch. Wirksworth. Calverton colliery. Mike. 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted November 14, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 14, 2014 (edited) I notice that many of the locos have TOPS numbers and heaven forbid, there's one in Coal sector livery.. I though you gave up when they dropped the D prefix.........? Dragonby and that area would make a fab model. Cheers, Mick Edited November 14, 2014 by newbryford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted November 14, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 14, 2014 I notice that many of the locos have TOPS numbers and heaven forbid, there's one in Coal sector livery.. I though you gave up when they dropped the D prefix.........? Dragonby and that area would make a fab model. Cheers, Mick I gave up taking notes! When railways are in your blood, it's an addiction. Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PjKing1 Posted March 3, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2015 Some great photos there Mike thanks for sharing them!! Cheers, Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Enterprisingwestern Posted March 3, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 3, 2015 Second attempt, either I'm stupid or computers don't follow common sense and logic! Anyway, as I said, getting into Downendians spirit of things; Details to follow, the hydraulics are w/c 6:6:70. Mike. 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy stroud Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Lovely pictures of Exeter and Torquay(still with bay platform!) there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 4, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 4, 2015 (edited) Black and White - now you're showing your age........................... Having said that, I have memories of Newton Abbott on a family holiday in Summer 1970 - maroon, blue, blue/grey, green and maybe some choc/cream as well............ Cheers, Mick Edited March 4, 2015 by newbryford 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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